A group of youngsters in red silk Mandarin-collared shirts are plucking, beating or blowing into Asian musical instruments that generate delicately trembling and airy melodies. The young musicians ...

On a quiet side street of Beacon Hill, the studio of Warren Chang — founder and director of the Seattle Chinese Orchestra — is filled with instruments unfamiliar to most Westerners. There’s a yangqin, ...

“Learning Chinese instruments is not only for them to master playing Chinese music, but also for them to learn their cultural heritage.”— Gordon Lee For hundreds of the South Bay’s young Chinese ...

When I first heard that Irvine’s A Little Dynasty Chinese School (where my daughter is a student) has a traditional Chinese children’s orchestra, I was surprised. I grew up in San Jose, where there ...

Muhammad Iman Mohamed Irfan understands only the most basic of Mandarin words — like lian (practice) and zhun bei (get ready) — but he has already performed solo parts on stage with a Chinese ...

Once a year music lovers gather to hear the sounds of the yangqin, the guzheng, the erhu and other instruments that constitute the Seattle Chinese Orchestra. Children, seniors and everyone in between ...

This is the ninth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

Yan oversaw transformation of orchestra into city's 'cultural calling card' and established academic setting for traditional ...

EVERETT— Know what an erhu is? An ancient Chinese musical instrument, it’s a two-stringed bowed fiddle of sorts. Perhaps you’ve seen it played on street corners in big cities with Chinatown ...

Musicians from the China National Traditional Orchestra, including erhu player Niu Qianqian, will perform in Paris, France, and Vienna, Austria, during a tour from Friday to June 13. [Photo provided ...